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Khirbet Beit Bassa is an archaeological site located in Beit Sahour, in the district of Bethlehem in Palestine. The site is located on a low hilltop located approximately 3 km to the southeast of Bethlehem, one kilometre southwards from Beit Sahour and about 10 km to the south from the Old City of Jerusalem. The ...

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The origin story of the Licchavis, retold in two commentaries on Nikāya texts, has received some scant attention in the modern scholastic record, yet has usually been either cast aside as so much myth or has been recast in thematic or structural studies that align it with other tales of incest, foundling narratives, or origin stories of gaṇa-saṅghas. ...

Abstract
This article offers a critical reply to the assessment of Bhikkhu Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda’s Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (1971) published by Stephen Evans in Buddhist Studies Review 34(1), 2017. The alleged flaws and inconsistencies detected by Evans — both internal to the presentation in Concept and Reality and vis-à-vis the doctrinal evidence in the early Pali discourses — are ...

Reviewed by Adam Pryor
Affiliation Bethany College, USA. email: pryoraw@bethanylb.edu
Keywords embodiment; Christian theology; incarnation;
phenomenology; Christology; Bakhtin
There are few texts written in Christian theology today that demonstrate the ambition of Ola Sigurdson’s work. At times breathtaking and at others overwhelming in its sheer size and density, Sigurdson has attempted to
develop a constructive theological somatology in roughly three ...

by Charlie McCrary
These days, Americans choose their religions. Even those who seem to start with a religion, those “raised religious,” must choose to continue to be religious, or to switch religions, or to cease to be religious, maybe become “spiritual” instead, or adopt the label “atheist” or “freethinker” or “agnostic.” Pick one. This imperative, Lincoln ...

Reviewed by Andrew Kunze
Michael Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu turns a critical eye toward history of Hinduism in America and the nationalist, orientalist discourses of formative debates, from the Colonial era up to Chicago’s World Parliament, in order to revise the standard “Transcendentalist-Theosophist-Vivekananda-1965” trajectory (xvii). Taking a genealogical approach to his historical sources, Altman shows how ‘hazy notions’ ...

Keywords: Islam; women in religion; Muslims in the UK; Salafism; conversion.
The topics of women in Islam and Salafism in Europe have garnered considerable attention from researchers, journalists, policy-makers and the wider public recently. Anabel Inge’s book The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman, which analyses UK-based Salafi Muslim women’s everyday experiences and is based on ...

Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. By Trinidad Rico. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Hardback, 136pp. ISBN 978-1-62958-437-9.
Not long after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, I visited one of the UK’s seismology monitoring centres in relation to its heritage. I dwelt on a printout that was stuck to the ...

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By Nawal Nasrallah
Everybody Loves Salsa
Mustard and Vinegar Sauce
خل وخردل
The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes:
In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Everybody Loves Salsa
Mustard and Vinegar Sauce
خل وخردل
The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes:
In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Everybody Loves Salsa
Mustard and Vinegar Sauce
خل وخردل
The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes:
In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Everybody Loves Salsa
Mustard and Vinegar Sauce
خل وخردل
The perfect salsa for your grilled dishes:
In modern Iraq what first comes to one’s mind at the mention of the words sauceand salsa is a store-bought bottle of steak sauce similar to A1, which we use primarily with hamburger sandwiches. We think of salsa as ...

Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. By Tim Ingold, 2013. Paperback, 163 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-36723-7.
The first thing you need to know about this book is that, far from being merely a repository of knowledge about the four “A”s of Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, it is rather a key that can be used to open ...

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City. By Mike Pearson. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2013. Hardback, 288 pp., 52 halftones, 5 maps. ISBN 978-08-5989-8751
The word ‘performative’ featured fairly heavily in the early days of CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory), enthusiastically deployed by its adherents as a useful word for locating what ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Eggplant Sandwich
لفّة بيتنجان
Laffat Betinjan
Vegetarians’ paradise!
Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Eggplant Sandwich
لفّة بيتنجان
Laffat Betinjan
Vegetarians’ paradise!
Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Eggplant Sandwich
لفّة بيتنجان
Laffat Betinjan
Vegetarians’ paradise!
Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

By Nawal Nasrallah
Eggplant Sandwich
لفّة بيتنجان
Laffat Betinjan
Vegetarians’ paradise!
Eggplant makes easy but bewitchingly scrumptious sandwiches. They are quite popular in Iraq, eaten especially at dinnertime, the time for the smaller meal of the day (for lunch, more serious stuff is offered). Interestingly, Iraqi Jews used to eat it for the Sabbath morning meal, and ...

Archaeology and Heritage of the Human Movement into Space. Edited by Beth Laura O’Leary and P.J. Capelotti. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015. Hardback, 188 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-07865-6
This is a broad collection of essays on space archaeology, which ambitiously seeks to create an integrated approach to sites and materials relating to the exploration of space ...

Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII. Edited by Izumi Kuroishi. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. Hardback, 266 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2818-3
Anchoring the core of Michel Foucault’s argument about biopolitics as the governance of life are descriptive elements of architecture and infrastructure as technologies of power that manifest political rationalities and through which emerge ...

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. By Timothy Morton, 2013. Hardback, 240 pp, 23 plates. ISBN 9780816689224.
In this book, Timothy Morton explores the connection between objects and ecology at a time of environmental crisis that is increasingly being referred to as the “Anthropocene”. From his ...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini, 2013. Hardback, 823 pp. ISBN: 9780199602001.
With this publication, the archaeology of the contemporary world joins 16 other fields of archaeological study that have been presented in the series of Oxford Handbooks in ...

Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication. UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series 10. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. By Pierre Lemonnier, 2012. Hardback, 205pp. ISBN: 9781611320565.
Long before the materiality fever in archaeology and the social sciences in general, there was a group of researchers taking things very seriously: the French school of ...

In January 2014 the University of Granada (Spain) launched the Project MEditerraneanMOuntainous Landscapes: a historical approach to cultural heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA), funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission.
Partnering with the University of Granada are ten other entities, including private companies and universities and research institutions from five different countries. ...

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In recent years several archaeologists have stated, or implied, that “we are all archaeologists now”. On the one hand, this statement can be seen as democratizing the discipline and opening up the field of archaeology to contemporary society at large, in particular to all those who, like professional archaeologists, are interested in engaging with the ...

The following article first appeared in issue 1.1 of Journal of Contemporary Archaeology where it introduces the first of that journal’s ‘Forum’ sections which in this instance is devoted to exploring the notion of the ‘anthropocene. Read the rest of the contributions on the journal site where they are published on an open access basis.
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The Archaeology of Hollywood, Traces of the Golden Age. By Paul G. Bahn. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2014. Hardback, 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-7591-2378-6.
Hollywood is a district within Los Angeles where major motion pictures are made, but it is also a place with a significant and underappreciated past. Many have visited Hollywood to take bus tours ...

Archæographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio. By Fotis Ifantidis. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013. Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN: 9781905739622.
Archæographies features the photography of Fotis Ifantidis performed during the excavations at the lakeside Neolithic settlement of Dispilio in Greece. Several of these photographs have previously featured on Visualizing Neolithic (http://visualizingneolithic.com), a photography blog active since 2006. The photographs contained in ...

Nekopejte do nás, ještě nejsme mrtví / Don’t dig into us We are not dead yet / 2011 from SVIET on Vimeo.
What would you say if anthropologists began to examine your lifestyle; archaeologists searching for fingerprints in the country that you left behind and tried to examine your life through the archaeological remains of your ...

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